Feature priming and the capture of visual attention: Linking two ambiguity resolution hypotheses

Brain Research

Volumn 1370, Issue , 2011, Pages 175-184

  Hickey, Clayton ^a   Olivers, Chris ^a   Meeter, Martijn ^a   Theeuwes, Jan ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Capture; ERP; N2pc; Priming; Visual search

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STIMULUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ATTENTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651366280     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.11.025     Document Type: Article

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